Events on Thursday, November 17
Raise Cache: A Benefit for hackNY
Thursday 11/17 @ Lexington Avenue Armory
hackNY is a local nonprofit aimed at funding and developing next-gen technologists and hackers, to keep NYC a center of online...
The Last Testament: A Memoir by God with David Javerbaum and Ira Glass
Thursday 11/17 @ 92YTribeca
Have you ever seen that classic film Oh, God! where God comes down to earth and interrupts John Denver while he's...
Vol. 1 presents Civic Pride: New Jersey
Thursday 11/17 @ Word
The Vol. 1 Civic Pride series is back with what is perhaps the best night of New Jersey stories ever told....
DJ Questlove presents: Bowl Train
Thursday 11/17 @ Brooklyn Bowl
American music legend ?uestlove is continuing his Thursday night residency at Brooklyn Bowl, accompanied by throwback Soul Train videos! His vinyl...
Thursday 11/17 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Most famous for his work in DIY post-hardcore gods, Fugazi, Joe Lally has come back in waves with three solid solo...
Mel & El: Our Time Of The Month
Thursday 11/17 @ 92YTribeca
Join the hilarious musical comedy duo Mel & El for their pee-in-your-pants-funny show! Chosen as the Village Voice's BEST OF NYC...
Thursday 11/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
21+ i have a little blurb that you guys can use that they have been using The on the sly...
Thursday 11/17 @ 3rd Ward
In four course sessions, learn the essentials to video editing from basic cuts to color correction, audio tweaking, and different formats...
Thursday 11/17 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Lyrics Born has gone about the creation of his latest effort, As U Were, in a less-than-conventional manner. One defining characteristic...
David Murray Plays Nat King Cole en Español
Thursday 11/17 @ Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, NYU
Murray has careened forward in a cool, collected, rocket-fueled streak releasing over 150 albums under his own name. His new album,...
Thursday 11/17 @ Joe's Pub
Kelly Willis, named by NPR as "alternative country's golden goddess," returns to the national stage with her husband Bruce Robison. Willis'...
PopGun Presents: Balam Acab w/ Trust and True Womanhood
Thursday 11/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Balam Acab, like Salem and oOoOO, traverse the same shadowy territories that seem at once sensual and unnerving. Balam Acab creates...
Thursday 11/17 @ Symphony Space
Blending Jamaican dub and reggae, American ambient and hip hop, Mexican bolero, and Argentine tango, Argentine singer-songwriter Federico Aubele has a...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 11/17 @ 59E59 Theaters
The annual gathering of anglophile theatre at 59 East 59th is a blast — like taking a trip London's West End,...
Michaël Borremans: The Devil's Dress
Thursday 11/17 @ David Zwirner
Michaël Borremans' figurative paintings evoke the works of centuries past, with a twist. His supine moribund bodies recall Andrea Mantegna's Lamentation...
Thursday 11/17 @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
Thursday 11/17 @ New World Stages
Freud's Last Session is a battle of the brains, with plenty of wit and thought-provoking dialogue. Two brilliant actors, particularly Martin Rayner...
Thursday 11/17 @ The Morgan Library
In celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens, the Morgan Library & Museum presents Charles Dickens at 200...
Thursday 11/17 @ Botanica Bar
We love this bar. It's our home away from home, our office away from office. You simply can't find nicer bartenders...
Thursday 11/17 @ Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 W 49th St)
We hestitated to lend our voices to the chorus of adoration for this show — only because we were afraid of being...
Thursday 11/17 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
For over 30 years, Sherrie Levine has been lifting artwork from other artists in a sly attempt to undermine generally accepted...
Thursday 11/17 @ Second Stage Theatre
World War I may not strike you as perfect fodder for a musical, but the current crop of plays indicates otherwise:...
Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer
Thursday 11/17 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Crafting bizarre cinematic head-trippers for over 45 years, Jan Svankmajer is an award-winning Czech animator who has inspired several generations of...
Thursday 11/17 @ The Monocle Order
Members-only sunglasses retail site the Monocle Order is going brick-and-mortar for a month of the high holiday shopping season. Swing by...
Sol Lewitt: Structures 1965 - 2006
Thursday 11/17 @ City Hall Park
City Hall Park is an unlikely hotbed of great contemporary art. But if you happen to be in lower Manhattan, you...
Thursday 11/17 @ Richard Rodgers Theatre
There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient...
Thursday 11/17 @ IFC Center
Werner Herzog and his charming German accent are back again with Into the Abyss, a documentary that uses a triple homicide...
Thursday 11/17 @ Blue Note
At 70, jazz piano legend Chick Corea shows no signs of slowing down. Quite the opposite, in fact: he's celebrating his...
Claire Fontaine: Working Together
Thursday 11/17 @ Metro Pictures
The art team Claire Fontaine conceived of themselves as a "ready made artist." As such, they lifted their working name from...
Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview
Thursday 11/17 @ Landmark Sunshine
10 years after Steve Jobs left Apple, and while he was running the niche computer company NeXT, he did an interview...
Thursday 11/17 @ Jerry Orbach Theater
In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first...
Thursday 11/17 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Thursday 11/17 @ August Wilson Theatre
Like the signs on the buses say: The hits just keep on comin' — five years now for this crowd-pleasing bio-musical...
Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures
Thursday 11/17 @ The Jewish Museum
NYC Weights and Measures is filmmaker Jem Cohen's observational portrait of New York City, a document of Cohen's wanderlust as he...
Thursday 11/17 @ ArtSpace
BAM celebrates its 150th anniversary with two limited edition prints by leading artists Marcel Dzama and Deborah Kass. Dzama's Where All...
Thursday 11/17 @ Winter Garden Theatre
Seen by over 45 million people around the world, MAMMA MIA!, is celebrating over 4,000 performances in its tenth smash hit...
Thursday 11/17 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
Fast-moving and frequently hilarious, Standing on Ceremony is a staged reading of nine ten-minute plays focusing on gay marriage, with proceeds...
Thursday 11/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Fortissimo, a production and distribution company based in Hong Kong and Amsterdam, has had a strong hand in bringing independent cinema...
Thursday 11/17 @ MoMA PS1
Anthology is a new project by artist Clifford Owens that merges photography, video, and live performance. For this show, Owens' first...
Thursday 11/17 @ Various locations
Whether due to the will of art historian RoseLee Goldberg or the attention given the naked people at MoMA last year,...
Andy Goldworthy's Garden of Stones
Thursday 11/17 @ Museum of Jewish Heritage
Established almost 6 years ago, Andy Goldsworthy's living memorial garden was the artist's first permanent commission in New York City. The...
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Thursday 11/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See works from Diego Rivera's first NYC exhibition, which took place at the MoMA back in 1931. Yes, sketches and designs...
John Malkovich in The Infernal Comedy
Thursday 11/17 @ BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
John Malkovich takes the lead as real-life Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger in this musical stage play The Infernal Comedy. While...
Thursday 11/17 @ La MaMa E.T.C.
Hebrew scholars and horror fans know a golem is "unshaped matter" which becomes a "creature of clay." The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre's...
Thursday 11/17 @ HERE Arts Center
Whether in Bellini's opera or Balanchine's ballet, Amina the Sleepwalker (La Sonnambula) is a role requiring otherworldly technique — while maintaining...
Joan Mitchell: The Last Paintings
Thursday 11/17 @ Cheim & Read
Cheim & Read brings together an exhibition of large-scale late works of Joan Mitchell, one of the few female members of...
Thursday 11/17 @ Westside Theatre
This show is based on Ilene Beckerman's simple, sweet book, spruced up by the incomparable Ephron sisters, and then interpreted by...
Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway
Thursday 11/17 @ Broadhurst Theatre
This show makes you wonder if he looks in the mirror each day and realizes he is ruining everything for all...
Thursday 11/17 @ The Actors' Temple Theatre
Award-winning writer/director Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee addreses an overlooked part of history: the first African-American fighter pilots in the...
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Thursday 11/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
You may remember the Lewis Chessmen from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. These chess pieces, dating from the twelfth century...
Thursday 11/17 @ P.S. 122
Judging from the rapid yearly deterioration of New York's Fringe Festival, it's no wonder it took Silence! The Musical, a 2005...
Thursday 11/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This year, MoMA's annual New Photography series expands to feature the work of six artists, with the aim of capturing the...
Thursday 11/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
"Yummy" might be the best word to describe Rirkrit Tiravanija's current installation at MoMA. The conceptual artist's Untitled (Free/Still), which can...
Thursday 11/17 @ IFC Center
Sigur Ros fans — we know there are more than a few of you out there — here's your chance to re-live the...
Thursday 11/17 @ Various Greenwich Village locations
For those desiring an unearthly Halloween thrill this year, try looking in your own backyard (or more likely your alley or...
Thursday 11/17 @ Cinema Village
Having just walked off with the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Terrence Malick's latest film, The Tree of Life, which stars Brad...
Thursday 11/17 @ Brooklyn Museum
The exhibition Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties presents the work of 68 painters, sculptors, and photographers who explored...
Thursday 11/17 @ Ars Nova Theater
During the next four weeks Ars Nova is hosting its own industrious and creative ant colony for ANT Fest 2011. Thirty...
Thursday 11/17 @ Marlborough Chelsea
Artist Rashaad Newsome became interested in heraldry while visiting the castles of Europe. He has been fascinated ever since with the...
Thursday 11/17 @ La MaMa E.T.C.
Seldom is an "Aesthetics" presentation so intentionally funny or revealing. Clowns Ex Machina's nine fearless females ponder the eternal question of...
Thursday 11/17 @ Westside Theatre
You would swear that musical instruments are being played, but the only sounds in this show are coming out of the...
Thursday 11/17 @ David Zwirner
In his fifth solo show at David Zwirner gallery, German artist Neo Rauch presents a selection of paintings and sculpture that...
Thursday 11/17 @ BAM
Celebrate ten years of the Next Wave Art fest by ushering in a new group of groundbreaking Brooklyn artists. Curated by...
Michael Williams: Montgomery's Tubercles
Thursday 11/17 @ The Journal Gallery
In the work of Michael Williams you might see echoes of the odd loops of Brice Marden, the scribbles of Cy...
Thursday 11/17 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 11/17 @ Matthew Marks Gallery
Scopophilia brings Nan Goldin back to New York for her first show in this city since 2007. The exhibition presents over...
Thursday 11/17 @ Museum of the Moving Image
If Sesame Street was your primary baby-sitter back when you were a kid, and you considered Kermit and Miss Piggy some...
Thursday 11/17 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row
Burning is an irreverantly entertaining look at three unconventional families —interracial, gay, and neo-Nazi — connected by the arts, funerals, sex, drugs,...
Thursday 11/17 @ MoMA PS1
Responding to the sense that 9/11 is underrepresented in the cultural discourse, MoMA PS1 presents September 11, a group show that...
Thursday 11/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Filmmaker Jack Smith was one of the most influential underground filmmakers. With a penchant for burlesque performance, Hollywood orientalism, scathing satire,...
Thursday 11/17 @ New York Public Library
In celebration of its centennial, the New York Public Library is going into its archives and bringing out some items that...
Thursday 11/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA kicks off the fall season with a blockbuster exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by celebrated abstract expressionist...
Thursday 11/17 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Thursday 11/17 @ Classic Stage Company
Have things changed so much since Anton Chekhov wrote The Cherry Orchard in 1904? Flighty, ridiculous Lubov (Dianne Wiest) and her...
Matthew Stone: Optimism as Cultural Rebellion
Thursday 11/17 @ The Hole
Acclaimed British artist Matthew Stone crosses the pond to present his first major solo show in America, a multimedia discovery of...
Thursday 11/17 @ Gagosian Gallery
Gagosian Gallery unveils Andreas Gursky's Bangkok, a new series of large-scale works being shown for the first time in New York....
Thursday 11/17 @ The McKittrick Hotel
Don't let the extraordinary experience that is Sleep No More pass you by. Dubbed immersive theatre by its parents, the award-winning...
Thursday 11/17 @ Roundabout Underground
A wonderfully inventive script from Andrew Hinderaker is hardly credible but none the less riveting with its dark humor, fascinating, unique...
Thursday 11/17 @ The High Line, Chelsea Market Passage
Brooklyn-based artist Spencer Finch is a man in search of lost time. He feeds viewers a Proustian Madeleine for their senses,...
Thursday 11/17 @ Samuel J. Friedman Theater
Oh please, stop with the "so kinky!" reviews. Not by today's standards, it's not. See this show for a brilliant young...
Thursday 11/17 @ New World Stages
Avenue Q is the story of Princeton, a bright-eyed college grad who comes to New York City with big dreams and...
Nitehawk presents The Skin I Live In
Thursday 11/17 @ Nitehawk Cinema
Antonio Banderas stars as the eminent and obsessive plastic surgeon Dr. Robert Ledgard in The Skin I Live In, a delightfully...
Thursday 11/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
It's that time of year when MoMA looks into its crystal ball and forecasts the upcoming film awards season. Always a...
Thursday 11/17 @ Access Theater
Theresa, a busy journalist, agrees to go on a blind date with Tony, arranged through an acquaintance. By their second meeting,...
Thursday 11/17 @ Angelika Film Center
From his outlandish comments — calling George W. Bush an asshole or admitting to be a Nazi — to his profound fear...
Thursday 11/17 @ Various Greenwich Village locations
Expose your taste buds to the flavors of Greenwich Village in this two-hour walking tour. Break your parents' rules and start...
Thursday 11/17 @ Gagosian Gallery
Junction (2011) and Cycle (2010) are two new sculptures by Richard Serra. Serra has produced large-scale, site-specific sculptures for architectural, urban,...
Thursday 11/17 @ Yossi Milo Gallery
Simen Johan presents a new selection of photographs at his seventh exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery. For this show, Johan continues...
Mother India: The Goddess in Indian Painting
Thursday 11/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In India, the Goddess (Devi) is the omnipresent embodiment of power and wisdom. Devi in her myriad forms—benign, maternal, empowering, and...
Richard Move and MoveOpolis! Martha@...The 1963 Interview
Thursday 11/17 @ New York Live Arts
The acclaimed Martha@... The 1963 Interview returns for encore performances after a sold-out run last season. The production is a metatheatrical...
Parabolas to Post-Modern: Selections of Architecture from the Collection
Thursday 11/17 @ National Academy Museum
Parabolas to Post-Modern: Selections of Architecture from the Collection is a brief survey of post-war architecture by National Academicians (NAs) and...
Crafting Modernism: Mid-Century American Art and Design
Thursday 11/17 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Crafting Modernism: Mid-Century American Art and Design explores the rich interplay of art and design in all craft media that exploded...
Thursday 11/17 @ Asia Society and Museum
For his first solo New York museum exhibition, artist U-Ram Choe (b. 1970, Korea) has created a new work inspired by...
Michael Sailstorfer: "Tornado"
Thursday 11/17 @ Public Art Fund
Rising more than 30 feet to meet the treetops of Central Park, "Tornado" brings together a series of opposite terms. It...
Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe
Thursday 11/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition is the first large-scale presentation of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from Alfred Stieglitz's collection, acquired by the Met...
Thursday 11/17 @ Public Art Fund
Like the atmospheric transformation of a cloud into rain, some works of art have the potential to change their form and meaning....
Thursday 11/17 @ El Museo del Barrio
This show features imagery by a number of artists that share an affinity for illustration and the narrative force of images....
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Thursday 11/17 @ Public Art Fund
Rob Pruitt's monument to Andy Warhol, the father of Pop Art and one of New York's enduring cultural icons, is installed...
Thursday 11/17 @ National Academy Museum
In the first New York retrospective of the artist’s work, Will Barnet at 100 will explore the dialogue between figuration and...
194X–9/11: American Architects and the City
Thursday 11/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This year marks the 10th anniversary of 9/11, an event that ushered in a new era of architectural anticipation and uncertainty,...
Contemporary Selections: Aligning Abstraction
Thursday 11/17 @ National Academy Museum
Aligning Abstraction will bring together a selection of recent diploma presentations by newly admitted members. Each year the National Academy receives...
Thursday 11/17 @ National Academy Museum
Each semester the National Academy School presents its Faculty Exhibition which highlights recent work by the members of the faculty. The...
Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine
Thursday 11/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition explores caricature and satire in its many forms from the Italian Renaissance to the present, drawn primarily from the...
Angelique Kidjo and Director Jo Bonney: Part of the New York Voices series
Thursday 11/17 @ Joe's Pub
Angelique Kidjo along with Director Jo Bonney will revisit the legends and tales of Angelique’s childhood with a poignant perspective on...
El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011
Thursday 11/17 @ El Museo del Barrio
El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011 is El Museo del Barrio's sixth and largest biennial, showcasing 75 artists at seven...
Lauren Kelley: Froufrou Conclusions
Thursday 11/17 @ The Kitchen
Exhibition Hours: Tues-Fri, 12-6pm; Sat 11-6pm FREE Opening Reception: Friday, November 11, 6-8pm Employing a wry wit when commenting on...
Thursday 11/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This summer's installation in The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden celebrates the bold use of color in modern and contemporary sculpture....
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Thursday 11/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition features a selection of early 20th-century reproductions of now-famous works of art from Sir Arthur Evans’s historic excavations of...
The Artist Revealed: A Panorama of Great Artist Portraits
Thursday 11/17 @ National Academy Museum
Highlights from the National Academy’s extensive collection of artist portraits from the early 19th century to today will be on view...
Picasso to Koons: Artist as Jeweler
Thursday 11/17 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Max Ernst, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Jeff Koons and Anish Kapoor are some of the 20th century's...
Rabindranath Tagore: the Last Harvest
Thursday 11/17 @ Asia Society and Museum
Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is beloved around the world as a poet and writer, yet few outside his native India...
Sol LeWitt: Structures, 1965-2006
Thursday 11/17 @ Public Art Fund
Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007) was one of America’s most inventive, prolific, and influential artists. He created significant bodies of work...
"Wonder of the Age": Master Painters of India, 1100–1900
Thursday 11/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This major loan exhibition is devoted to the connoisseurship of Indian painting, with some 220 works selected according to identifiable hands...
Voces y Visiones: Signs, Systems and the City in El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection
Thursday 11/17 @ El Museo del Barrio
This installation in the Carmen Ana Unanue Galleries, drawn from our Permanent Collection, features works with an urban sensibility that deploy...
Romare Bearden: The Soul of Blackness/A Centennial Tribute
Thursday 11/17 @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, drawing on its and collector Russell Goings’s collections, presents a retrospective of Romare...
Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet
Thursday 11/17 @ Rubin Museum of Art
In early Tibetan painted portraits, founding masters of important Buddhist schools were often represented as holy personages. Using artistic conventions developed...
Harun Farocki: Images of War (at a Distance)
Thursday 11/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Galvanized by the international student protest movement of the late 1960s, Harun Farocki has developed an experimental documentary style, integrating his...
National Academicians: Then and Now
Thursday 11/17 @ National Academy Museum
National Academicians: Then and Now will trace the work of four artists and one architect by pairing diploma presentations – the...
Thursday 11/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The collapse of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) and subsequent conquest of China by semi-nomadic Manchu tribesmen from northeast of the Great...
The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Thursday 11/17 @ The Jewish Museum
The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city...
More Than Enough w/ Elite Camp DJs Sickroc & Unkle Chip
Thursday 11/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Unofficial Comic-Con After Party After a brief hiatus, resident Elite Camp DJs Sickroc & Unkle Chip have returned, blessing the night...
Thursday 11/17 @ El Museo del Barrio
Get in on the game as we challenge you to follow the clues around NYC to satellite venues and events surrounding...
Thursday 11/17 @ Haunch of Venison
Castellani e Castellani is a special exhibition of new and seminal work by Enrico Castellani, one of Italy’s most influential artists. The show...
Thursday 11/17 @ National Academy Museum
A salon-style installation of approximately 120 paintings from the museum’s collection, An American Collection spans the period 1820-1970 and reflects the...
Thursday 11/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt was designed by artist Faith Ringgold and constructed in collaboration with New York City students aged...
Fiber Futures: Japan's Textile Pioneers
Thursday 11/17 @ Japan Society
Japan’s extreme textile-making lands in NYC. Coaxed from materials as age-old as hemp and newly developed as microfilaments, more than 35...
Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures
Thursday 11/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This major international loan exhibition challenges conventional perceptions of African art. Bringing together more than 100 masterpieces drawn from collections in...
Northern Manhattan Arts Allicance
Thursday 11/17 @ El Museo del Barrio
This exhibition focuses more specifically on local graffiti writers and their newer "canvases," focusing on artists of various generations and their...
Thursday 11/17 @ Symphony Space
Join Harlem's Hue-Man Bookstore and Touch One Events for a unique book event. Page to Stage is a multimedia evening, with...
Thursday 11/17 @ El Museo del Barrio
Times of crisis are also times in which life extends into the streets. The artists in this exhibition have created gestures...
Thursday 11/17 @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Malcolm X: A Search for Truth will provide the general public an opportunity to examine materials from the Malcolm X collection....
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Thursday 11/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
More than 1,000 works from the distinguished collection of the Met Museum's Department of Islamic Art—one of the most comprehensive gatherings...
